Generally speaking

First the bad news:
Well, bad news for me anyway. My laptop died. She's at the hp hospital and I'm waiting for the techie to fix her. Apparently the motherboard is gone ... It saddens me greatly. The ordeal of getting her to the hospital nearly had me in tears as well, tears of frustration that is. I called to get directions, now we've been there before, so really it was just to jog my memory. HA! I asked the receptionist for directions, and this is more or less what she said: "youtakeairportroad,right?towardscornicheturnrighatthestreetbetweenthesecondandthirdrobots
beforecorniche,right?behindtheiranianschool" - R-I-G-H-T, I asked to please speak to her manager as I couldn't understand a word she was saying. Speaking with an Indian accent and all. I understood the manager a bit better at least, but his directions sucked just as much. The only bit that was correct was to turn right at the street with the sign for the Iranian School ... 40 minutes later I found their office, I was not amused. Anyways, booked the laptop in after being in the queue for about 10 minutes and after 3 Arabs pushed in front of me. They think nothing of it, trust me. Always remember, I'm the infidel and a woman at that, slight higher than shark shit on the totem pole. The techie called me after two days and informed me that it's the motherboard that died and it will cost me Dhs2,250 to fix, that's including labour. Then she, yes, the techie is a lady! proceeded to try and sell me "Care Pack", I said fine, but you're gonna have to send me that on an email, as I can't commit to paying you whatever amount it is you want, without seeing the docs? Surely this makes sense? I used to be on her side of the phone, I did those quotes, I know what I'm talking about. Wait, I know what I'm talking about in a WESTERN country, here, everything has its own set of rules. Anyhoo, 3 days later, not counting Friday, I'm STILL waiting for that email ... yes, I'm about to call the manager.

A Real quick visit:
So Linda came for a BLITZvisit. In and out of Abu Dhabi in 4 days! We were BUSY. Took her to Marina Mall, Ibn Batutta mall in Dubai, she saw the desert, took her to two exhibitions at the Emirates Palace hotel and to the Grand Mosque! She had a total blast and just could not get over the place :) It is something to see to believe. She then met her hubby at the airport and they went to Oman together, he was on a business trip and she got to tag along. Ja, it's a terrible life, but someone's got to do it hey? I don't have pics for you ... they're on the dead pc .... will post as soon as I can.

Work an other such boring things :)
Or, the reason for us being here :) Gids is working in Dubai at the moment (YUK), the one site is in beeeg trouble and some of the guys have been asked to help out there, temporarily. To give you an idea of where he is at the moment:

http://www.ameinfo.com/122350.html

http://www.alec.ae/projectsdetail.asp?uri=14&s=5&ss=1&iType=1

So, as soon as that site is finished, he gets to go to Al Raha Beach development, here in Abu Dhabi ... to give you an idea:



now this video is of the whole development. Alec is building housing for Etihad staff. Their tiny little portion of this development is worth Dhs2.5 billion. Money, is so not a problem. It is rather impressive hey?

Toys for boys and goodies for girls
In other news, the boy went shopping. We got toys :) In time for summer, he now has a rather large tv to play his Playstation 3 on and I have a Wii :) The reason for the Wii? Well, it's got Mario Brothers, off course :) heheee, can't wait to be 7 years old again. We're going to have the most fun.

The Kaydin Kronikles:
Well the boy is still walking strong, exploring the garden every opportunity he gets and we moved the doggy gate from the top landing to the bottom, so now he can't get onto the stairs, and he can play in his room too :) Totally perfect for summer approaching, another place for him to play as the garden just won't be an option at 47C and 70% humidity. We're not there yet, but that's what it will be like in summer. woopikadoo, yes i'm totally excited about that :(

and here are some recent pics of the K-man:

sitting on the step with me, he's too cute, climbs off the step and then reverses until his calves touches the step, and then he sits down :)


Peek-a-boo


can also be played with anything that will cover his face :)





Giving Lara a hug, he hugs everything though, he'll hug the floor too, if you ask him to :)


I'm the coolest mum, check the toys!! And both the red and green quads are total favourite toys :)


We send much love to all